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"Dana whatsittoya" |
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02 May 2004 06:31:39 PM |
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War Is Peace |
http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/jbowden/c_042604_jbowden_war_peace.htm
War Is Peace
By James Bowden
More war in Iraq means more peace in America. If there's still fighting ten
years from now, it's better than cut and run. If there are casualties every
month, they're fewer than the U.S. would lose fighting where the enemy
chooses the battlefield. The Iraq War is really just a battle in a very big,
terribly long WW IV. The Islamists are the enemy.
Islamists number more than Germany and Japan put together in WWII.
World-wide Islam breeds more Islamists every day. So, WW IV will continue
until Islam has a Reformation and Enlightenment, converts or renounces
conflict totally. Achieving any victory condition will take decades, if not
centuries. Islamists started the war. They'll keep fighting regardless.
America shouldn't make a 'Spanish Peace' - which is appease today and
surrender tomorrow.
Last year I wrote 'The Long Hard Peace' for Iraq was an uncertain peace at
best http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/jbowden
/2003/jb_0421. shtml or http://www.bushcountry.org/news/
columnists/jbowden/c_041603_jbowden_ long_hard_peace.htm Events are playing
out as expected. So, expect several Army divisions in Iraq for a decade - or
more. The challenge isn't the skill and courage of our U.S. Army, but the
Will of the American People. The questions that bleed or bolster willpower
deserve truthful answers, like these 'buts' about our fighting in Iraq.
But, fighting is a diversion from the war against the terrorists, like Osama
Bin Laden. . No, don't underestimate the resources of the Armed Forces.
Fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq aren't mutually exclusive. The Occupation
of Iraq demands much, but eliminating Saddam Hussein was a huge blow to
terrorist networks and Iraq as a state threat. Regime change in Iraq serves
as an object lesson for terrorist sponsors, like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
But, fighting creates new Muslim warriors. No, neither strength nor weakness
produces Islamists. Simple, devout interpretations of the Koran produce
Islamists. Our mere existence as a state - not subjects under the Sharia -
creates Jihad for many Muslims.
But, fighting is suppressing the Iraqi People. No, the Sunni minority, who
are Baathists, and Shiite majority are trying to capture the new Iraq with
arms. They can be suppressed enough, bought off, and played off if our
Occupation is skillful.
But fighting creates an endless cycle of violence, new enemies and being
bogged down like Vietnam. No, actual fighting wins or loses only a local
situation. Fighting is a means to effect the ends - Will. So, every military
action is a political event. Every political event has an information
outcome. The outcome is the story that builds or breaks the enemy Will. Our
Coalition must fight with a plan for every outcome as a story.
But, fighting isolates - us from European Allies. We're losing Allies. Yes
and no. Fighting separates us from Europeans who are too weak to defend
themselves, too impotent to even reproduce their population, too secular to
challenge Islamic conversions with Christian evangelism, too fearful to
staunch or decrease their Muslim minorities. These Nations, who commit
suicide, deserve to die. Others, who know they still have fighting men, are
Christian, and remember totalitarianism enough to hate it, will fight as our
willing Allies.
But, fighting isolates us from the World Community. No, there is no World
Community. There are the chattering liberal elites who enrich themselves
through the United Nations, foundations, universities, and the media. The
World will hate, love, fear and envy - simultaneously - our American
Imperial Republic throughout this phase of history. Enough of the World will
follow the wise exercise of American power wed to American Will
But, fighting doesn't protect the U.S. Homeland. No, the best defense is a
good offense. Fighting in Iraq protects the U.S. by killing more Islamists
faster, further from home. Yet, no defense is perfect.
But, fighting isn't worth American lives. No, every American death is worth
winning WW IV. WW IV is a fight for our freedom, our faith and our American
Civilization.
But, fighting will cost too many lives for too many years. No, the price is
worth the final peace in victory. Freedom from Islamist barbarian rule is
worthy of a war for centuries.
'War is Peace' sounds so Orwellian. Except, this isn't Big Brother's
totalitarian lie. It's how you fight Totalitarians who are also Barbarians.
It's how you resolve a clash of civilizations - like our Indian Wars
(1608-1891). War on the frontier of the American Empire means more peace
'back East.' America must have a Will for War in Iraq for as long as the
Islamists want to bring it on.
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Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.
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| User: "Joni Rathbun" |
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| Title: Re: War Is Peace |
02 May 2004 07:43:51 PM |
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On Sun, 2 May 2004, Dana violated copyright law by pasting:
http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/jbowden/c_042604_jbowden_war_peace.htm
War Is Peace
By James Bowden
--snipped republication of copyrighted material in its
entirety by Dana Raffeniello without the copyright owner's permission but
with alteration, a clear violation of copyright law.
10 Big Myths About copyright
explainedhttp://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
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